# nessa-childers - Monday 13 May, 2013
At a conference last week Bruton said there should be less regulation of the IFSC.
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# nessa-childers - Monday 22 April, 2013
MEP Phil Prendergast said that “a blanket refusal policy would serve only to heighten distrust in government and in the ECB.”
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# nessa-childers - Monday 8 April, 2013
Opinion polls come and go, but the public are missing the real achievements of the Labour party in government, writes Rory Geraghty.
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# nessa-childers - Saturday 6 April, 2013
Up to 100 members of the party gathered in Dublin this morning to demand change. They want to see more Labour policies implemented in government.
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The MEP will address a meeting of the Campaign for Labour Policies group in Dublin today which is likely to hear plenty of criticism of the junior coalition party.
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# nessa-childers - Friday 5 April, 2013
The MEP’s decision to resign from the parliamentary party was met with disappointment and criticism from her Labour colleagues today.
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Eamon Gilmore will have one less Christmas card to write now – but if Labour took its MEPs seriously, this may never have happened, writes Nessa Childers’ former parliamentary assistant Ciara Galvin.
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A suggestion that the Tánaiste has been seeking support for his leadership from the parliamentary party has been denied by Labour and a number of its TDs though many did not return calls today.
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5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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Nessa Childers and Eamon Gilmore – there’s no hugging it out this time.
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“I entered politics to help people, and am now resigning from the parliamentary party because I no longer want to support a government that is actually hurting people.”
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# nessa-childers - Monday 28 January, 2013
The Department of Finance said each year its officials meet with representatives of all industries in the run up to the Budget.
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# nessa-childers - Monday 10 December, 2012
Nessa Childers said she believes there are Labour TDs who want to vote against the bill that will bring in the Budget cuts, but they don’t feel they can vote that way.
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# nessa-childers - Thursday 27 September, 2012
Imagine the difference €500million could make for our ailing health services – yet the Government is opposed, writes Labour MEP Nessa Childers.
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# nessa-childers - Wednesday 12 September, 2012
Labour MEP Nessa Childers said that there is a risk “in the medium term of a breakaway political party forming” and that the Programme for Government needs to be renegotiated.
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# nessa-childers - Sunday 15 April, 2012
“This is a slippery slope we should not slide down nor encourage. It has echoes of the discredited McCarthy era of the 1950s in US politics.”
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# nessa-childers - Friday 13 April, 2012
Party leader Eamon Gilmore will make a keynote address, with protests expected around the conference site.
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In an opinion piece for TheJournal.ie this morning, Nessa Childers says Labour needs to
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As the Labour Party meets for its annual conference, MEP Nessa Childers argues that the party must maintain its core beliefs – or bring down the Government.
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# nessa-childers - Wednesday 11 April, 2012
Labour MEP Nessa Childers has called on Fianna Fail to prove its commitment to fighting white-collar crime.
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# nessa-childers - Monday 9 April, 2012
Nessa Childers warned against “arrogance” in a larger coalition party, and said Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil were both parties of big business.
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# nessa-childers - Wednesday 4 April, 2012
Current commissioner Maros Sefcovic says Padraig Flynn’s pension may be stripped, but only after he is convicted of an offence.
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# nessa-childers - Sunday 1 April, 2012
We take a closer look at the legislation proposed to be amended to allow Oireachtas members be stripped of their pensions if they are guilty of corruption.
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# nessa-childers - Saturday 24 March, 2012
MEP Nessa Childers says Commission’s code of conduct should be “enforced retroactively” following Mahon findings.
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# nessa-childers - Saturday 10 March, 2012
Nine things to know this morning…
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# nessa-childers - Wednesday 8 February, 2012
New documents show that McCreevy met with many major developers and bankers – including Sean Quinn and Bernard McNamara – during the Irish property bubble.
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# nessa-childers - Monday 6 February, 2012
Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte suggested that defamation and regulatory rules could apply to online media outlets.
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A conference is being held in Dublin today to discuss media diversity in Ireland. But do you think there is enough of it in this country?
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Irish journalists were also questioned about the influence of ownership on their work and the need to protect diversity.
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# nessa-childers - Thursday 1 December, 2011
Mitchell was shortlisted for the Employment gong at last night’s ceremony, but was pipped by a French representative.
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# nessa-childers - Thursday 24 November, 2011
Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore defends the nomination of Kevin Cardiff to the European Court of Auditors – and stands by his man.
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The Government will meet today to discuss the fallout from yesterday’s vote.
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# nessa-childers - Monday 21 November, 2011
MEP Nessa Childers says she is disappointed that Eamon Gilmore did not personally get in touch over claims she was bullied.
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# nessa-childers - Thursday 14 April, 2011
Irish MEP asks EU to introduce legislation to make devices mandatory.
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# nessa-childers - Wednesday 6 April, 2011
Childers says milk manufacturer is using a ‘misleading’ health claim as a ‘marketing gimmick’.
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Labour plays down Nessa Childers comments on fiscal compact
Childers told a newspaper that the treaty was “designed to satisfy the Germans”, and would have been voted down by MEPs.
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